Find
The Find tool is a fast way to find contents in your data. It consists of a text field where you enter a search string and a list of results for the search.

To access the tool, click
Find
on the menu bar, or
Ctrl+F.
You can enter search criteria to find, for example,
- actions that you want to perform
- pages and visualizations in your analysis
- certain data values for marking purposes
- library items that you want to open.
- enter data column names and get visualizations recommended to you.
Example
In the analysis below, there are three pages (Furniture sales, Garden sales, and Toys sales), and a data column named Toys. If you enter Toys as search criterion, you get visualizations based on the Toys column recommended to you, which you can add to the analysis through a simple click.

Moreover, the search gives that a page includes Toys in its page title, and lists also the visualizations on that page. Simply click any of the listed items to access it.
- y:sales will list all visualizations with Sales on the y-axis.
- sales category:page will only list all pages with "sales" in the title.
Syntax
You can also use logical expressions in your search strings. For information on the syntax for searches, see the Searching in Spotfire clients page.
- Searching in Spotfire clients
There are many places in the Spotfire clients where you can search for different items. For example, you can search for filters, analyses in the library or elements used to build information links in the Information Designer. All of the available search fields use the same basic search syntax, which is presented below.